Events

Celebrate the opening of Push & Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries

UNM Art Museum latest exhibition celebrates abstraction in all print processes. Featuring Modern and contemporary abstract prints and drawings, the exhibition focuses on the works of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside prints by their contemporaries, the works in this exhibition demonstrate important collaborations with American publishers such as Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Tyler Graphics Ltd., and Tamarind Institute. Read more about Push and Pull.

We invite you to join us for an opening reception on Friday, January 31, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm, with opening remarks beginning at 4:45 pm from UNMAM Curators Mary Statzer and Angel Jiang, and Director Arif Khan.

This exhibition is made possible by a generous donation of twenty prints from Helen Frankenthaler as part of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative. UNM students from the course Abstraction on Paper: Curating Postwar American Prints and Drawings (AHIS 429/529) played a key role in developing this exhibition, providing labels and sound pieces.

Kayliegh Begay
Hannah Cerne
Ava Marr
Logan Petersen
Marina Perez
Savannah Phelps
Sophie Rubeo
Michael Schultze
Brianna Tadeo
Yoma Wilson

In response to Frankenthaler’s work, students created original pieces featured in the exhibition. Adrian Ricca Lucci (BFA student in painting and drawing), Brianna Tadeo (third-year MFA student in photography), and Yoma Wilson (second-year MFA student in printmaking). whose works reflect a deep engagement with Frankenthaler’s artistic vision.

Live performance piece by Luca Berkley, at the South Gym in the Johnson Center. 9:00 am until approx. 9:09 am in the free weights area. Will be repeated every first Wednesday, same time and place.

Spring Reception, Saturday, March 22, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Professor Meggan Gould, who teaches photography within the Department of Art at UNM and serves as the Associate Dean of Research, is a contemporary photographer whose work often explores the rhetorical, semiotic, and material ways in which photography and its tools—namely, cameras—have been socially constructed. She places under the lens facets of camera technology that usually reside comfortably outside the resultant image—the varying structures and functions of viewfinders, film frame counters, and camera icons—questioning the particular ways in which these seemingly natural and neutral attributes shape the photographer, and the medium itself.

During the creation of her series “7 Pictures Remaining,” the artist’s images of camera counters took on a surprising new dimension when she discovered that many of the cameras documented contained rolls of undeveloped film. Gould opened nearly all the cameras in the collection and discovered hundreds of never-before-seen images residing within. This yielded fascinating discoveries and intimate moments connecting cameras, and former camera owners, to their images, effectively operating as a “shadow archive” within the California Museum of Photography (CMP) technology collection. A selection of prints made from these anonymous images are presented alongside Gould’s own work, attributing personal histories and biographies to these otherwise mute objects.

Visual artist reception: Sunday: March 23, 2023, 2:00 pm
Then stay for the concert on that same day at 3:00 pm

Exhibiting artists this month are Dale Jenssen, Wall-hung Fibre and Mixed Media; Cherie Martin Irwin, Fiber and Mixed Media; Logan Ortwerth, Natural Pigment Oils, Watercolors and Acrylics; Mary Louise Skelton, Mixed Media Embellished Gourds.

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 15,2025, 6:00-8:00 pm

In this group exhibition curated by Daniel Ulibarri, “New Tableau: Experiments in Photography” explores how contemporary artists are returning to the photographic medium’s experimental beginnings within the context of modernity. From thermal cameras to alternative darkroom techniques, these artists embrace subtraction, abstraction, amalgamation, unorthodox imaging, and non-traditional practices to explore new frontiers.

“New Tableau” features nine local and international artists, including Roger Ballen, Stefan Jennings Batista, Ryan Dennison, Jesse Draxler, Derrell Lopez, Emily Margarit Mason, Zuyva Sevilla, Nick Tauro Jr., and Ramona Zordini.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 28, 2025, 5:30 pm

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 29, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm, Zimmerman Library, Frank Waters Room

MFA Thesis exhibition by Emma Ressel ’25 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 2nd floor.

Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, 2025, 5:00-8:00 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, April 7, 2025, 3:00 pm
CFA, Room 1020

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 2025, 6:00-9:00 pm
Gallery Hours: 12:00-4:00 pm or by appointment
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
CFA, Room 2018

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025
Artist Talk: 5:00 pm

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 4:00 pm
Clark Hall, Room 101

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2025, 5:00-9:00 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 3, 2025, 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, April 14, 2025, 2:30 pm
CFA, Room 1020

Concert: Friday, April 18, 2025, 8:00 pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 5:00 pm, at Kiva Auditorium

This exhibition features ceramics works from the Artita Porcelain, Pueblo Pottery, Intro to Ceramics, and Wheel Throwing classes from all skill levels.

Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:00-5:00 pm
Art Building, Room 245

Reserve your spot with Larry Madrigal: larryvalencia@gmail.com

Friday, April 18, 2025, 11:00 am
Room 304
Zoom Link: https://unm.zoom.us/j/94560315932

Lindsey White (b. Tulsa, OK) is an artist living and working in San Francisco, CA.
In her enigmatic and slyly humorous works, Lindsey White (b. 1980) explores the aesthetics of stand-up comedy and the related field of magic. Trained as a photographer, she sees comedians and magicians as kindred spirits-similarly sensitive people who notice things that others might overlook and call them to our attention. She’s particularly interested in the difficulties women face in these arenas, which are traditionally dominated by men. In addition to photographs, White creates sculptural objects inspired by everyday items. When remade and decontextualized, these “props,” as White characterizes them, can take on eerily strange or dark tones. Emblazoned with kitschy phrases, they share the theatrical quality inherent to her photographs. When presented together, her works evoke the buzz of anticipation one feels in the moments before the start of a stage performance.
She has a new book, “What? Is? Art?” is out now on Colpa Press. She is represented by Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA

This performance workshop is part of an initiative to foster intellectual and artistic exchange in XR (extended reality) studies. We invite you to join a three-week workshop, a collaboration between faculty/students in the Art Department and the Department of Film & Digital Arts at UNM.

The workshop will begin in Week 10 of the semester and will include students from FDMA 491: Blender and ARTS 446/546: The Politics of Performance, along with interested performers from various fields. Interested artist/scholars will collaborate with students in FDMA 491 to create performances that incorporate 3-D rendered objects in virtual reality.

The three-week collaboration will culminate in a public performance. The performance will be streamed online through the Department of Film & Digital Arts platform and presented at the UNM Art Museum.Attendance is free. Selected participants will commit to at least 3 meetings with collaborators, as well as participation in the final rehearsal and performance.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 4:00-7:00 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, April 27,2025, from 2:00-4:30 pm

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday through Friday from 12:00-4:00 pm

In their separate yet related Graduate Thesis Exhibitions, Amari Becker and Isabel Heiland share works that include sculpture, weaving, drawing, installation, photography, and field research. Both artists explore and question their relationships within a diverse, enmeshed multi-species planet. Rainbows are found in burned remains. Plastic is remembered as a descendant of long-gone forests. The theme of more-than-human interconnectedness imbues the works with both grief and love.

Exhibition curated by Elie Porter Trubert — http://www.elieportertrubert.com/

Tending to…
Art Talk: Monday, April 21, 2025, 11:00 am
Tending to… honors the sentience of material-beings. Grandmother’s prayers weave across a milpa farmer’s hands. Buttons sprout from twisted poplar. Peanuts growing spices, pigments, seeds, and plastic remains hang stitched with heirloom threads encased in paraffin wax, bringing the latest updates on exchange rates. The bricolage beings of garbologist Amari Becker’s thesis installation stitch together bits of detritus with medicinal plants and family heirlooms. Amari’s interest in movements, places, and stories drives their research to trace repeating systems and patterns. Over a decade of working in documentary filmmaking and commercial television propels questions about power and cultural production. Family dreams intersect local myths, national systems, and global infrastructure to create a body of whimsical beings brimming with contradiction.

Absorb – Reflect – Refract
Artist Talk, Monday, April, 2025, 1:00 pm
Informed by first-hand experience in forestry and field research in places altered by fire, Colorado artist Isabel Heiland shares the beauty of disturbed landscapes in Absorb-Reflect-Refract. Through her work, she examines how natural areas, specifically the coniferous forests of Colorado and New Mexico’s Rocky Mountains, transform and reciprocate through trauma, growth, disaster, relationships, time, and love. Looking at these changes from the outside prompted Isabel to examine the ways that she herself transforms under stress and care, and how she reflects that back into the world. And, ultimately, the beauty she finds around her–whether intact or heavily disturbed–has led to her acceptance of constant change and chaos as part of life.

Open Studio: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00-6:00 pm

Larry Madrigal (b. 1986, Los Angeles) is a Mexican American painter living and working in Phoenix, Arizona.
Madrigal completed his MFA at Arizona State University in Tempe in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions with Veta Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles and New York, Galeria Nicodim in Bucharest, Romania, the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art and more. He has also been included in group exhibitions in Bucharest, Paris, Tokyo, Tel-Aviv, New York and Los Angeles, Madrigal is represented by Nicodim Gallery.

Reception: Friday, April 25, 2025, 5:00-7:30 pm

Join the free public reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Voces del Pueblo: Artists of the Levantamiento Chicano in New Mexico, curated by Ray Hernández-Durán, Ph.D. and Irene Vásquez, Ph.D.

This is an exhibition 7 years in the making that features a group of New Mexican artists who were among the earliest generation of Chicana and Chicano activists in the state. All 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, were students at New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) in Las Vegas in the early 1970s when Chicano scholar Pedro Rodríguez was hired as the inaugural Director of Chicano Studies at NMHU. It was at NMHU that these young men and women became politically active and proceeded to paint murals, produce art, and organize in New Mexico as part of the nascent Chicano civil rights movement that was unfolding nationally. The artworks on display capture a distinctly New Mexican Chicana and Chicano experience that has received little attention in Chicano art history.